Example sentences of "we to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question modern sectarian formations have to ask themselves is also the same question as the early church asked : ‘ Are we to be exclusive or inclusive ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ For how long are we to be deprived of the company of the lovely new bride ? ’ a voice spoke silkily behind them . |
| 3 | But the issue is , on which type of crime ought we to be concentrating ? |
| 4 | ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Are we to be destroyed from inside , too , a country which successfully repelled and destroyed Philip of Spain , Napoleon , the Kaiser , Hitler ? ’ |
| 6 | Were we to be trapped there until high tide lifted us off ? |
| 7 | Studying the fossil record enables us to show what must have happened , but , as Stephen J. Gould has been the most recent to argue , were we to be able to wind the clock of evolution backwards towards the origin of life on earth , and then run it forward once more , quite different outcomes would most likely have occurred ; not only would there probably have been no humans , but perhaps not even any brains . |
| 8 | Are we to be killed by the Cubans or the Russians ? ’ |
| 9 | Well we were up there one time er at the Lothian region and we to be up and tell that this was imposing higher things on , higher prices on both the bus buses , because they were raising the bus fares at the same time , and they were increasing the lunch club . |
| 10 | Is the Department of Trade and Industry prepared to do anything to help the efforts of my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell , South ( Dr. Bray ) to try to secure thin slab steel production in Scotland — or are we to be left entirely to the mercy of that virtual private monopoly , the British Steel Corporation ? |
| 11 | As the rest of Europe and the world progresses , are we to be left in a quagmire of despair at the end of another parliamentary Session , another era and another century ? |
| 12 | ‘ Are we to be partners or not ? ’ she muttered . |
| 13 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 14 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 15 | We know now why God chose us to be agents and not lollipop persons or antique dealers . |
| 16 | Most of these are n't signed , but if we look at them early and register our interest in the act , we hope the band will consider us to be their agent when they have a record deal . |
| 17 | The European consortium did not appear to us to be particularly cohesive in their aims and objectives . |
| 18 | ‘ Let the burning of these books remind us to be everlastingly on our guard against Imperialism and War . ’ |
| 19 | Will you help us to be there when they need us ? |
| 20 | Your support for our work will enable us to be even more effective . |
| 21 | He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love . |
| 22 | Submitted another letter from Bob to Housing Dept in which he expresses concern about the effects on the children and asking for us to be re-housed in a safer area . |
| 23 | ‘ Better for us to be involved than you personally , John . ’ |
| 24 | They want us to be ourselves and they themselves and to meet as friends … only after some quiet times with a dolphin do we enjoy letting it be in charge of the encounter , and see what it may decide to do next with us . ' |
| 25 | And I feel if now we deny ourselves our greatest delight and say our love alone shall make us strong , our strength shall not depend on anything but our love then indeed I think we shall be creating an independence of each other , which can only make our binding sympathy more perfect … . for the present , for the 14 months before I am 21 then I have after much real thought , much consideration decided that it would be best for both of us to be separated … |
| 26 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 27 | I want us to be together in the next life . ’ |
| 28 | ’ As I read it we could not restrain abundant tears and I felt instinctively as if it were a gentle , loving hint to us to be prepared for what followed . ’ |
| 29 | It appears to us to be wide enough to cover the mind 's activities in all its aspects , not only the perception of physical acts and matters and the ability to form a rational judgment whether an act is right or wrong , but also the ability to exercise will-power to control physical acts in accordance with that rational judgment . |
| 30 | Philosophy , if it is anything , is a linguistic activity which teaches us to be critical about linguistic categories . |